Education

Expedition has a strong track record for our provision of distinctive engineering services within the education sector. As well as providing full structural/civil engineering design services for schools and colleges, we also offer educational institutions strategic advice of how best to develop energy strategies across their estates.

In developing structural design solutions for school buildings, our engineers will typically work alongside client and architect teams to understand the particular aims and objectives for building projects. In many cases it will be an important priority for new buildings to be deliverable with minimum disruption to existing facilities.

Our work with UCL (London) is a good example of Expedition providing a trusted advisor relationship with a first class educational establishment who is seeks a clear energy strategy for a growing and changing campus.

Milton Keynes University is a proposed new university campus for 15,000 students, based in central Milton Keynes. The client, MK:U, is a joint partnership between Cranfield University and Milton Keynes Council. Expedition are providing Structural, Civil and Sustainability design services for this large scale and complex academic project. We are part of a winning team with […]

UCL’s New Student Centre is a flagship development in the heart of Bloomsbury. With no clear brief on quite how the building would be used we worked closely with the design team to develop a building that is flexible and adaptable to a range of different needs at the same time as minimising resource consumption. […]

Home to The Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street, like a lot of 1960s buildings was no longer fit for purpose and in need of redevelopment. We worked with the design team to demonstrate the whole life value and carbon benefit of retaining the original concrete frame and how we could help morph the […]

Pea Soup House was a pop up installation created in 2016 to raise awareness of air pollution by communicating a normally invisible issue using soup and a coloured coded air quality index – green (1) being clean to red (10) being polluted. The temporary installation at the RIBA headquarters on Portland Place served a coloured […]

Expedition are the structural and civil engineers for Pritzker prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki‘s first UK building for the Aga Khan Development Network at Argent’s King’s Cross redevelopment. The structural design was closely coordinated to realise the architectural vision. Uninterrupted internal volumes were created and custom-fabricated perimeter columns were installed to the tightest tolerance, to minimise the […]

We are working with the University of Bristol to prepare the sustainability brief for the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus. The University is developing a new enterprise campus in Bristol City Centre with a focus on fostering innovations in digital technology. By engaging closely with the design team, as well as a wider group of […]

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) provides world-class new homes for the Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera, as well as the creation of the much needed 170,000 m² Stavros Niarchos Public Park. Designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, the SNFCC is a monument to the value of culture, learning and humanity. As the […]

We worked with St Mary’s University in Twickenham to develop their Estates Strategy for the 2017-2022 period. This followed the development of a new Estates Masterplan for the Strawberry Hill campus, which is being developed to provide additional teaching facilities and much needed student accommodation. The Estates Strategy will support the delivery of the University’s academic vision, Vision 2025. Working […]

Expedition are working with Architecture Initiative on the partial demolition and redevelopment of an existing 1960’s building, on Commercial Road, Tower Hamlets, into an all-through ‘Free School’. Part of the existing building is to be completely demolished to make way for a new residential tower. The remaining building is being remodelled to provide modern teaching […]

Expedition worked with Useful Studio, our sister architectural practice in the Useful Simple Trust, on the structural and civil engineering for the expansion of Isleworth and Syon School. We worked on the project from inception to the end of RIBA Stage 3; and as testament to the lean and efficient design, the completed building was […]

Universities face a huge challenge to meet national carbon emission reduction targets, especially when we consider their ageing estates and growing student numbers. UCL’s campus is no exception, comprising a diverse mix of buildings of varying age and usage. Expedition were commissioned by UCL to develop an Energy Management Strategy, to review how the existing building […]

We are supporting the University of Westminster Summer Works programme by providing SKA HE services on 3 major refurbishment projects which are taking place during summer 2017, across multiple sites. SKA HE is RICS’s latest environmental assessment tool, designed specifically for the higher education sector to achieve best practice in sustainable refurbishment. The spaces being refurbished include […]

The University of Westminster (UoW) has ambitious goals around the sustainable development of their Central London estate. We are working with the sustainability and estates teams to develop a Sustainable Building Standard to set out and communicate the university’s sustainability vision, objectives and specific building targets. The Standard sets out the expected standards and sustainability brief […]

Expedition teamed with Hopkins Architects and won an OJEU competition for the delivery of a new library building for the University of East London on their Stratford Campus. The university required a new information hub to provide a stimulating and inspirational learning environment. The design had to accommodate a wide variety of learning and research spaces, […]

Expedition Engineering worked since 2013 with Hugh Broughton Architects and The Institution of Structural Engineers on the refurbishment of a 1960’s steel frame building to form the new headquarter building, on Bastwick Street, near the Barbican in central London. The project includes the refurbishment of the four storey building into high-quality offices, meeting spaces, library, […]

Expedition was invited to work alongside Hopkins Architects to provide new buildings for Bryanston School, a Secondary Boarding School in Blandford Forum, Dorset. The school wished to replace out-dated accommodation and address its current and future demands through the provision of new and extended buildings. The proposed buildings formed a new quadrangle which unify the north […]

The redevelopment of South Hampstead High School in Camden involves the replacement of approximately 80% of the existing buildings over a two-year period. The new teaching facilities and basement sports hall will replace existing Victorian buildings to provide facilities of a standard that reflect best practice in teaching and learning. An essential requirement of the […]

The new Science Centre at Abingdon School provides exceptional quality teaching spaces for biology, chemistry and physics. The building was designed to provide a clear distinction between individual faculties with each subject occupying a different floor of the building. The layout provides an ideal environment for learning – maximising daylight and natural ventilation. It is […]

Expedition was com­missioned to produce a detailed fea­sibility assessment for a combined heat and power network for the North Kensington Academy and Leisure Centre site. Our role included the evaluation of heat and electricity demand across the existing masterplan, a survey of existing building refurbishment paths and evaluation of com­patibility with a new CHP system. […]

Expedition was commissioned to provide strategic advice to the University of Lincoln to support their achievement of carbon reduction requirements for Higher Education institutions. Specifically, we carried out modelling of energy use in existing buildings across the Campus and compared this with benchmark data. We used this data to prepare a replacement and maintenance strategy […]